Cuba News

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet.

Cuba, with its tourist-dotted beaches and tangled political history, has long sustained trade partnerships with many countries.

Just three years after the Obama administration relaxed travel restrictions to Cuba, nearly every major tour company is now jockeying for the hearts and wallets of U.S. tourists.

The Castillo del Morro San Pedro de la Roca, a 17th century Spanish fortress, protects the entrance to the harbor in Santiago de Cuba, one of the stops on the new Cuba Cruise.

Among the many concerning revelations in this week's report by the U.N. Panel of Experts are details of how Cuba's Port of Mariel was used for smuggling 240 tons of weapons to North Korea, in violation of international sanctions.

A file picture taken on February 12, 2010, shows former British Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg speaking during an Amnesty International press conference in Berlin.

What became clear to me when I was protesting the Vietnam War and the shortage of funds for LBJ's War on Poverty was that, essentially, I was asking someone to act on my behalf, a futile exercise.

The United States military announced on Thursday that it had repatriated an Algerian detainee held for more than a decade in the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison complex.

Cuban shortstop Erisbel Arruebarrena reported to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday, nearly three weeks after agreeing to a $25 million, five-year contract.

Jean Washburn Hernandez died peacefully on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at her home in Essex Meadows in Essex, Connecticut.

Approximately 50,000 patients get some kind of infections in Cuban hospitals; 16,500 could die from that cause.

Despite the CELAC spectacle in Havana, Cuba the Castro regime's outlaw credentials were reaffirmed in a damning report from the United Nations widely reported, on its role in illegal arms smuggling to its ideological soul mate: North Korea.

As remuneration in the British Columbia public sector skyrockets, we bring you our annual database of who is making what in B.C.'s public service.

Twenty years ago Murphys Creek Theatre presented its first production in the Black Bart Playhouse.

Dear Sir: Two of my father's most used sayings were "The Lord pays debts without money" and, when referring to business, private finances and personal life, he said, "A little well managed is far better than a lot badly managed."

After Cuba's revolution in 1959, Havana squandered what was arguably its best opportunity to force the United States to abandon its lease of a naval base at Guantanamo: a legal doctrine that allows a nation to terminate a treaty if a fundamental change occurs in the circumstances that led to it.

The "hard currency collection stores" [as the government itself named them], have started accepting both of the two Cuban currencies.

This ideal, however, is ignored -- even intentionally sabotaged -- far too often.

New Guantanamo Bay U.S. prison guidelines describe hunger striking detainees as undergoing "long term non-religious fasting," a copy of the document obtained by Reuters shows.

The Cuban Communist Party said heroine Melba Hernandez, a member of the party's Central Committee and parliamentary deputy passed away March 9, from complications linked to Diabetes Mellitus, a disease she had suffered from during years.